IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.1 | |
| 中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
244 THE SHRINES OF KHADALIK CH. XX
Though among the mass of manuscript remains there
were no datable documents, I could not feel in doubt as to
the age of the ruin. All pictorial and relievo remains
pointed clearly to the period when the shrines of the
Dandan-oilik site were abandoned, i.e. the close of the eighth century A.D. The discovery of some Tibetan lines
on the Chinese Brahmi rolls previously mentioned agreed
with this conclusion ; but definite chronological evidence
was to come from the remains of the ruin which I next
proceeded to excavate on September 27th. This was a
temple marked by a low débris heap some fifty yards to the
south-west. Here the cella proved smaller, twenty-seven
feet square, with a single quadrangular enclosure ; but the
destruction of the walls had not been quite so thorough, and
finds of artistic interest were relatively more numerous.
Small painted panels, as well as excellently modelled
small relievos in hard plaster (Fig. 76), turned up near
the north wall containing the entrance. The relievos had
undoubtedly formed part of decorative halos around life-
size stucco images ; but of the latter, modelled in much
more friable plaster, only sadly broken fragments such as
hands and parts of heads, survived. Of technical interest
were finds of moulds in ` plaster of Paris,' which had served
for casting small relievos of figures and floral ornaments
such as formed part of the wall decoration in these shrines,
as well as for portions of the larger stucco images. Some
fine wood carvings, in relievo and in the round, also turned
up, besides little clay models of Stupas in plenty.
Among manuscript finds I was fortunate to recover
here large pieces, including several complete leaves, of a
Sanskrit Buddhist text written on birch-bark and probably,
on palaeographical evidence, to be attributed to the fourth or fifth century A.D. The brittle birch-bark sheets became
wonderfully fresh in appearance when I gave them a good
bath, such as they needed after the scorching they had
manifestly undergone and their twelve hundred years of
burial in arid sand. I could greet them as friends from
Kashmir, which the material clearly indicated as their
place of origin. Some of the paper manuscripts found
here showed traces of having been exposed to great heat,
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